The Daughters of the Knights of Pythias collection contains eleven ledgers documenting the activities of the Mount Elden chapter in Flagstaff, Arizona. The inclusive dates of the collection are September 1920 to May 1957.

The fourteen images allow the researcher to experience a trip west in the 1930s. The images include, Canyon de Chelly, Walpi, the Highway to Cameron, Second Mesa, and a number of views of the Grand Canyon.

Five interviews with residents of the Sedona and Camp Verde area. The interviews discuss education, farming, ranching, mining, and the general development of the area. One tape discusses experiences in World War I

The Dawn Dollard Collection contains two original 8mm reels. The
films illustrate a caravan organized by the Wally Byam Caravan Club International: The
Airstream RV Association. Visiting the Reservation was made possible by the McGee
Trading Post.

The Day Family were anglo Indian traders, on the Navajo
Reservation in eastern Arizona. The collection includes the personal and business papers
of Sam Day, Sr. (1845-1925) surveyor, Indian trader, legislator and United States Indian
Commissioner; Anna Day, Sam Sr.'s wife (1872-1932); and of their children, Charles L.
Day (1879-1918), Samuel Day, Jr. (1889-1944), United States deputy Marshall. The
collection includes information on Navajo culture, stories and legends; the looting of
Canyon del Muerta, and the Frank Dugan murder. The collection also contains 91
photographs depicting trading posts and eastern Arizona scenes.

The Delia Halsey Barker papers consists of correspondence, legal documents, and various items relating to both her professional and personal life. Contained within this collection is correspondence with her husband Rollo, friends, relatives, and Arizona State Teachers College

This collection consists of a portion of the research files from the publicationDesert Magazine. The files cover a myriad of western and southwestern topics. Topics include archaeology, ghost towns and mines, travel, and general folklore. Included in the files are manuscripts submitted for publication, correspondence, and general research material.

The Donavon Lyngholm papers consist of reports, newsletter,
articles and scientific data concerning issues of wilderness preservation and range
management in the southwestern United States. The section on wilderness information
includes area specific reports and comments from federal agencies and environmental
groups. The Range management material includes reports prepared for the Navajo and Hopi
Indian Relocation Commission and several Northern Arizona ranches.

Dorothea Cross Leighton (1908-1989) and Alexander H. Leighton
(1908-2007), both physicians, were in training in psychiatry when they set out to collect
information concerning life problems of Native Americans and Native means of dealing
with such problems. They spent January to May, 1940 with a Navajo family south of Gallup,
New Mexico.
This collection contains:
five handwritten field journals from the Navajo study; original manuscript materials
with some carbon copies; a few Rorschach tests; carbon copies of life stories, related
by eight individuals, which were extracted from the 1940 field journals; and
approximately 200 black and white photographs, a few negatives, colored slides, and
tapes of an English language program.